[ NEIGHBOURS ]


> GUSTAVO CIRÍACO & ANDREA SONNBERGER

> FUJACAL

Entitled Neighbours, the project takes the form of a silent walking performance that invites participants to explore the Fujacal neighbourhood in a sensitive, unhurried and collective way. Created by choreographers Andrea Sonnberger (Austria) and Gustavo Ciríaco (Brazil), the action begins with a simple gesture: walking in silence with a chair strapped to one's back. Throughout the route — which crosses key locations and atmospheres of the neighbourhood — the audience is invited to pause, sit, and observe, engaging in a deep listening of the urban space, its practices and rhythms.

Inspired by the plaques tournantes of the Situationists — transitional places where different urban atmospheres meet — Neighbours seeks to make visible the links and structures that shape the shared life of a neighbourhood. Here, the neighbourhood is seen as a living organism, shaped by gestures, occupations and relationships that weave through everyday life.

The project was originally created during a residency at La Casa Encendida in Madrid, and has since been adapted to different urban contexts such as Lisbon and Jerusalem. In Braga, the performance will culminate in a collective moment of sharing, reinforcing the idea of community as a practice in constant evolution.

Gustavo Ciríaco is a Brazilian choreographer and contextual artist whose work intersects performance, visual arts, architecture and anthropology. He develops site-specific projects that activate spaces and the communities that inhabit them. His works have been presented at institutions and festivals such as Serralves Museum, Tanz im August (Berlin), BienalSur (Buenos Aires), and Tokyo Wonder Site. He is part of the THIRD research programme at the DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam.

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